The Croatian parliament, which on Friday convened for the first time since closely contested elections in November, meets on Saturday to approve a cabinet formed by Ivo Sanader, the centre-right prime minister.
The prime minister, who has governed in a minority coalition for the past four years, secured a slender parliamentary majority through deals earlier this week with the Peasants and Social Liberal parties and the Serb ethnic-minority party.
The need to woo the Peasants' party forced Mr Sanader to take a harder line than he might have about enforcing Croatia's newly declared ecological zone in the Adriatic Sea against Italian and Slovenian fishermen, some analysts say.
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